Public Act 094-0181
 
HB0805 Enrolled LRB094 03654 RXD 33659 b

    AN ACT concerning business.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Copper Purchase Registration Law is amended
by changing Sections 3, 5, and 6 as follows:
 
    (815 ILCS 325/3)  (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 323)
    Sec. 3. Except as provided in Section 5 of this Act every
copper dealer in this State shall enter in triplicate on forms
provided by the Department of State Police or such department
as may succeed to its functions, for each purchase of copper
consisting of 50 pounds or more the following information:
    1. The name and address of the copper dealer;
    2. The date and place of each purchase;
    3. The name and address of the person or persons from whom
the copper was purchased;
    4. The motor vehicle license number of the vehicle or
conveyance on which the copper was delivered to the copper
dealer;
    5. A description of the copper purchased, including the
weight and whether it consists of bars, cable, ingots, rods,
tubing, wire, wire scraps, clamps, connectors or other
appurtenances or some combination thereof.
    A One copy of the completed form shall be kept in a
separate book or register by the copper dealer and shall be
retained for a period of 2 years one year. Such book or
register shall be made available for inspection by any law
enforcement official or the representatives of common carriers
and persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations
engaged in either the generation, transmission or distribution
of electric energy or engaged in telephone, telegraph or other
communications, at any time. Within 3 days from the day of
purchase one copy of the completed form shall be filed in the
office of the county clerk of the county in which the copper
was purchased and one copy shall be filed with, or mailed to,
the Department of State Police, or such department as may
succeed to its functions.
(Source: P.A. 84-25.)
 
    (815 ILCS 325/5)  (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 325)
    Sec. 5. The provisions of Section Sections 3 and 4 of this
Act do not apply to electrical contractors, to agencies or
instrumentalities of the State of Illinois or of the United
States, to common carriers or to purchases from persons, firms
or corporations regularly engaged in the business of
manufacturing copper, the business of selling copper at retail
or wholesale, in the business of razing, demolishing,
destroying or removing buildings, to the purchase of one copper
dealer from another or the purchase from persons, firms or
corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission or
distribution of electric energy or in telephone, telegraph and
other communications if such common carriers, persons, firms or
corporations at the time of the purchase provide the copper
dealer with a bill of sale or other written evidence of title
to the copper.
(Source: P.A. 76-1476.)
 
    (815 ILCS 325/6)  (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 326)
    Sec. 6. The Department of State Police, or such department
as may succeed to its functions, shall prepare the forms
provided for in Section 3 of this Act and , shall make an
electronic copy a reasonable supply of the form forms available
to the public on its website at the office of the county clerk
of each county and shall provide the forms to any individual
upon request.
(Source: P.A. 84-25.)
 
    (815 ILCS 325/4 rep.)
    Section 10. The Copper Purchase Registration Law is amended
by repealing Section 4.

Effective Date: 1/1/2006